Ivanka Shalapatova is the CEO of “For Our Children” Foundation.The first Bulgarian to ever be appointed as Executive director of the British organization “The European Children’s Trust” in the year 2000. She is former Vice-president of the International Foster Care Oragnization (IFCO) and on the board of directors at a network of more than 80 non-governmental organizations which influenced the Child Rights Connect convention in Geneva in many ways. Ivanka Shalapatova is also former Vice-Minister of Labour (2003); Master of English and Bulgarian Phylology with many practices done throughout Europe. She has just finalized her Ph.D. in Social Sciences in August 2020 with a dissertation on “EU policies for education and care taking for children and their implementation in Bulgaria”.